 | The Last Lecture
Release Date: April 8, 2008A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture."Professors are asked to considertheir demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them.And while they speak,audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to theworld if we knew it was our last chance?If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would wewant as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer.But the lecture...
 |  | New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)
Release Date: January 1, 2005| Series: Prairie Home Companion What better way to spend an hour than with some audience-tested and certified Not Bad jokes? Join guest Paula Poundstone, Garrison Keillor, and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion as they share more puns, one-liners, and light bulb jokes than you can shake a rubber chicken at. You get bar jokes, political jokes, Ole and Lena jokes, grade school jokes, and even some email jokes. Originally the bonus CD in the PLENTY OF PRETTY GOOD JOKES compendium, this collection from Joke Shows 7-8 is now available separately. ...
|  | Buzz Off (A Queen Bee Mystery)
Release Date: September 7, 2010| Series: A Queen Bee Mystery It's September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband."You won't want to put it down." ~ Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of Eggsecutive Orders and Grace Under Pressure"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries"Once readers get a taste o...
|  | Patty Jane's House of Curl (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: September 3, 1996| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle Patty Jane Dobbin should have known better than to marry a man as gorgeous as Thor Rolvaag, but she was too smitten to think twice. Yet nine months into their marriage, with a baby on the way, Thor is gone. It’s a good thing Patty Jane has her irrepressible sister, Harriet, to rely on. For it’s been said that a fine haircut can cure any number of ills, and before long the Minnesota sisters have opened a neighborhood beauty parlor complete with live harp music and an endless supply of delicious Norwegian baked goo...
|  | Moon River and Me
Publication Date: October 14, 2011“I didn’t want to be there anymore.I didn’t want to be anywhere familiar anymore because everywhere familiar had memories of her.And I didn’t want to remember.I had to get the hell out of there.I had to get the hell out of the city, the state, the country.Yup, Europe sounded just like what I needed.” ...
|  | Great Sea Stories of All Nations Part Two
Publication Date: December 20041930. Volume II of II. Some of the authors whose stories were selected for this work include: Hans Christian Andersen, Giovanni Boccaccio, Winston Churchill, Joseph Conrad, Daniel DeFoe, Anatole France, Victor Hugo, Selma Lagerlof, Basil Lubbock, John Masefield, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Felix Riesenberg, Morley Roberts, Jonathan Swift, and H.G. Wells. Additionally, the volume includes real-life episodes from these countries: Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Arabia, Persia, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, United States, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ge...
|  | Spirit of the Border
Release Date: November 1, 2010Jim and Joe Downs came from Virginia - one led by the call of God, the other by a thirst for adventure. In the Ohio River Valley, the handsome young preacher and his rogue and charming brother entered a storm of Indian wars, white men's treachery, and into the wilderness of a legendary fighter whose enemies knew him as the 'Deathwind...' In this classic novel by America's greatest Western writer, the true life and times of Lewis Wetzel - a character every bit as towering as Daniel Boone - is set against the extraordinary saga of Jim and Joe Downs. As the two bro...
|  | Don Vicente: Two Novels (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: August 17, 1999| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dusk, traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans to, ultimately, the Marcos dictatorship. The first novel here, Tree, is told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer. It is the story of one young man's search for ...
|  | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Publication Date: February 1985Originally published in 1985 and now available for the first time in hardback as part of the new BLOOMSBURY CLASSICS series, a fictional account of a Northern childhood, shown as a BAFTA award-winning BBC series last year. From the author of THE PASSION. ...
|  | Millones de mujeres quieren conocerte/ Millions of Women are Waiting to Meet You (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Roman Comedy
Publication Date: May 1983This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Scraping the Surface: Three Plays by Lyle Victor Albert (Prairie Play Series)
Publication Date: September 2000| Series: Prairie Play Series (Book 19) Lyle Victor Albert draws upon his own experiences growing up and coming of age. While dealing with the typical challenges of being a teenager -- the struggle of one's changing body, the search for acceptance and the trauma of post high school life --the simple act of shaving becomes a turning point in his own acceptance of his Cerebral Palsy. "Objects in the Mirror" sees "Vic" setting off on a perilous 1000 mile journey through the Rocky Mountains with all his belongings crammed in the back of his 1986 Honda Civic. Searc...
|  | Czech Plays: Seven New Works
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 097905706X | ISBN-13: 978-0979057069The first English-language anthology of post-1989 Czech plays exploring once-taboo subjects and new realities. Includes plays by David Drábek, Lenka Lagronová, Jirí Pokorny, Ivana Ruzicková, Egon Tobiáš, Iva Volánková, and Petr Zelenka. ...
|  | Catullus (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World)
Publication Date: April 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 140511889X | ISBN-13: 978-1405118897| Edition: 1 Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles.Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literary contextExamines Catallus's style and subjects, and provides a literary introduction to his major theme...
|  | The Birth of Modern Europe (Cambridge Introduction to World History)
Publication Date: March 28, 1975| Age Level: 11 and up...
|  | Satori in Paris and Pic: Two Novels (Kerouac, Jack)
Publication Date: January 12, 1994| Series: Kerouac, Jack Satori in Paris and Pic, two of Jack Kerouac's last novels, showcase the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent. Satori in Paris is a rollicking autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, and lands the author in his familiar milieu of seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic is Kerouac's final novel and one of his most unusual. Narrated by ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson in a North Carolina vernacular, the novel charts the adventures of Pic and his brother Slim as they travel from ...
|  | Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch
Release Date: November 3, 2006Two boyswho had just joined each otherafter having called at houses on the main street of the little New York villagewhere Constable Jenkins held sway as the entire police forcestarted at the sound of the harsh voice. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Ravenspire
Publication Date: May 1998Ravenspire is Marilyn's fifth novel for Avalon.Her other books, Every Move You Make, A Light in the Darkness, A Certain Enchantment, and The Mysterious Merry-Go-Round are also available from Avalon. ...
|  | WordGirl: Coalition of Malice
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up...
| | Mitos Griegos Para Ninos (Spanish Edition)
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